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> I understand what you're referring to but if Prime Video's UX is any indication, content trumps software product quality in this market segment. Netflix cons
by Semaphor 5y ago
> I understand what you're referring to but if Prime Video's UX is any indication, content trumps software product quality in this market segment.
Netflix consistently made their UX worse, they started far beyond Prime Video, nowadays, it’s a tossup. I canceled Netflix for that reason alone.
- noahtallen 5y agoThat’s pretty surprising to me. Prime’s video playback UX is very bad on Roku TV, iOS, and the web. Netflix isn’t just faster to use, it also looks better, doesn't have shockingly pixelated elements on 4k displays, and is easier to control.
- Semaphor 5y agoNetflix keeps randomizing things: Thumbnails, order of categories, order of shows within. In addition, they keep stuff I don’t want to watch in "keep watching" forever, and keep asking me to rewatch shows I already watched. They are probably still a bit better than prime (showing shows both in keep watching and other categories, but in the other categories it’s specific seasons ignoring your last watched status; sometimes shuffling subtitle state or language for fun), but all those issues were not a thing a few years ago.
- rkk3 5y agoReally? Amazon Prime had(has?) one of the worst UX issues I've ever seen... with Auto Starting episodes from a shows page (if you had partially viewed) and if you x out of the episode auto starting again - with no way to navigate to other episodes of the show. Like being stuck in an MC Escher painting.
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